A Soulful Journey

Khaimovich applied to emigrate from the USSR. He was called to OVIR and notified that his application had been refused. "But why?" he protested. "Because you are in possession of state secrets from your place of work." "Sate secrets?  You must be kidding.  In my field, the Americans are at least 20 years ahead of us." "That's precisely the secret." Rabinovich was call to OVIR to discuss his application to emigrate to Israel. "Isn't everything good for you here, Rabinovich?  Don't you have all that you need?" asked the OVIR official. "Well," began Rabinovich, "the fact  of the matter is that I have two reasons for wanting to emigrate.  The first is because of the neighbor who comes home stone-drunk every night and tarts cursing the Jews.  He always says that as soon as the Communists are overthrown, he and his Russian friends will go out and hang all the Jews." "But Rabinovich, you know that...

"We are innocent, as we have proclaimed and maintained from the time of our arrest.  This is the whole truth.  To forsake the truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life -- for life thus purchased we could not live out in dignity and self-respect." -Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's petition for executive clemency filed January 9. 1953. Looking back did we, as a nation and people, turn a deaf ear to truth for the sake of pride and acceptance?

The Hoover Institution announced that the communist parties of the world lost eight million members….mostly without loss of life.   It was the largest drop in the world’s communist population since Joseph Stalin’s purges. - R. Emmett Tyre ll Jr., The American Spectator What once was thought to be a permanent foe has now deflated to the point where they are hardly recognizable.   What does this say about what we invest our energies into?